Make a Wish (and other organizations) - Wish Trippers UNITE! Volume SIX!

[momma31]

Momma31, When you get to GKTW, they will give a schedule of everything they have going on in the village. They have met & greets on certain days for the characters from Disney & certain days for the characters from Universal Studios. We always went to this M&G, because the lines at the village are not as long as the ones at the parks, although some CMs(Disney Employees) will take you to the head of the line when you let them know you are with MAW, but this does not happen all of the time. At the village, they will leave you little surprises everyday, so if you are flying, you might want to take an extra bag to bring back all of the goodies that you will get.
You will also get a photopass from Disney for free, take advantage of them, get as many photos you can get. They will give you all of the info for this at the village.
Have Mayor Clayton & Mrs Clayton tuck your children in bed one night, we did not do this, & I regret not doing it.
It will be a busy & awesome week.
You have a beautiful family!
Prayers!!

Thank you so much. we will deff. do most meet and greets at the village. The photopass sounds great. My children would love to be tucked in by Myor Clayton and Mrs Clayton. Sounds like my children are going to be spoiled beyond amagination lol. Im so excited for them.

 

[newdrama12]

Thank you so much. we will deff. do most meet and greets at the village. The photopass sounds great. My children would love to be tucked in by Myor Clayton and Mrs Clayton. Sounds like my children are going to be spoiled beyond amagination lol. Im so excited for them.

The meet and greets are awesome!

 

[Lilfoot93]

I just thought I would say hi and introduce myself since I have been snooping. =) We find out the dates for DD3's MAW/GKTW trip next week, but the earliest date will be May 30th! I have been to WDW several times before, but this is the first time as a family with a semi- healthy child (DD3 is in remission, Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Cancer). Advice welcome!!


Me DH DS5 and WishKid DD3 rincess:
Finding out our dates next week!!!

So glad your DD gets her wish and that she is in remission! Hope you get the dates you want!

So stressed.....we leave two weeks from okay and jack has a temp. Tummy ache and headache. He has been sick for the last few weeks. First strep now some virus. Please send prayers that he gets healthy and we are healthy for our trip. We have his send off party this weekend too. I am so stressed. Hopefully he ill bounce back quickly!
Prayers JWCJ.

Praying for Jack that he is well for his trip!

Hello Everyone! Ok so I am new to the boards so please bear with me!!! I have been checking out the boards and am really excited to begin the pre trip report and everything...I am just overwhelmed with emotions We are a family of 5 (3 girls ages 11, 9, 4....2 older girls are my soon to be step daughters!!!!!!!!). Our little princess (Jerzey) that is 4 was born with multiple heart conditions. She has had 4 open heart surgeries and a diaphram surgery due to complications. Being granted this wish is absolutely amazing! This is something that we could never do with our girls in a million years. But I seem to still get a wave of emotions that come over me when I think of all that we have had to endure these last few years and how it is great to be going and at the same time sad cuz of why we are going....does that make sense? I am sure I am just having a moment! LOL I think having these boards will really help me thru all of it

Anyway our trip has been scheduled for Nov 25- Dec 1, 2013!!!! We leave for Disney 2 days after Allen (girls' dad) and I get married! What an amazing trip it will be I am kinda nervous about it being over Thanksgiving but should be fun. My parents also get to tag a long with us which is just wonderful since they have been our rocks thru our Heart Journey so far!!!

As for Jerzey, the docs hope she won't need another surgery for more than 10 years and hopefully at that point it won't be the invasive open heart surgeries!!!

Have a wonderful day

I have a heart kiddo too. We will be going on his wish trip in June to Star Wars Weekend. I understand the emotions of your child being accepted for a wish. It took me a while to be okay with it. Now I am getting pretty excited for Trev!

Well, we are off! Thanks to everyone here for the wonderful advise and friendships!

I hope you guys have a magical time!! I can't wait to hear all about it when you are back!

Jackie

 

[angel's momma]

I ordered Madison a special outfit to wear for a meet and greet with Mickey and Mini. Starting monday morning I will be leaving little gifts in my kids beds to lead upto our trip to give them clues. They still do not know that we are leaving next sunday. I wanted it to be a surprise for them.

Sounds fun

Well, we are off! Thanks to everyone here for the wonderful advise and friendships!

Have a wonderful trip

 

[angel's momma]

There are quite a few families getting ready to go in the next 2 weeks. In case this week gets busy & I don't post much, have a wonderful trip!

 

[NEmel]

Well, we are off! Thanks to everyone here for the wonderful advise and friendships!

We had a great night at MK. Even though Carters wish wasnt to go there, they let us go to the front of some lines! We are now on the first bus to the port!! Should be seeing the Dream in about an hour!!

 

[NEmel]

Well, we are off! Thanks to everyone here for the wonderful advise and friendships!

We had a great night at MK. Even though Carters wish wasnt to go there, they let us go to the front of some lines! We are now on the first bus to the port!! Should be seeing the Dream in about an hour!!

 

[Oneplustwins]

Hi everyone! We had Jacks send off arty this afternoon at Noodles and company. It was amazing! He was so surprised! His wish grantors gave all 3 kids gifts and even hubby and me....lots of snacks for the plane. They made jack a Pooh blanket to take with us. He hasn't let go of it yet!
Thank you everyone for the racers for him feeling better. He is doing better. More labs and tests Tuesday, but e is doing much better.
My daughter came down with strep Friday, so praying we all don't get sick!
We leave in a week and 36 hours......not that I am counting! Lol!
Welcome to all the new people.
I am so excited, it is really feeling real now.

 

[Oneplustwins]

one last question, we got a lot of information today, but when do we get the welcome packet fromGTKW? I have seen thers talk about getting tht. Thanks!

 

[icecreamforbreakfast]

one last question, we got a lot of information today, but when do we get the welcome packet fromGTKW? I have seen thers talk about getting tht. Thanks!

We are in Canada so I don't know if that made any difference, but we didn't receive the welcome packet from GKTW until we arrived there. They had it ready for us when we checked in.

Hope you have a fabulous time!!!!

 

[angel's momma]

We had a great night at MK. Even though Carters wish wasnt to go there, they let us go to the front of some lines! We are now on the first bus to the port!! Should be seeing the Dream in about an hour!!

So happy for you! Yay for a wonderful time at MK, and being on the first bus.

Hi everyone! We had Jacks send off arty this afternoon at Noodles and company. It was amazing! He was so surprised! His wish grantors gave all 3 kids gifts and even hubby and me....lots of snacks for the plane. They made jack a Pooh blanket to take with us. He hasn't let go of it yet!
Thank you everyone for the racers for him feeling better. He is doing better. More labs and tests Tuesday, but e is doing much better.
My daughter came down with strep Friday, so praying we all don't get sick!
We leave in a week and 36 hours......not that I am counting! Lol!
Welcome to all the new people.
I am so excited, it is really feeling real now.

So glad the send off party was so wonderful, and that he's feeling better. So sorry DD has been sick, hope she's feeling better. Praying the whole family will be healthy for the trip.

 

[LittleEsmom]

one last question, we got a lot of information today, but when do we get the welcome packet fromGTKW? I have seen thers talk about getting tht. Thanks!

You will get you're welcome packet from GKTW at orientation When you check in they will have a packet too.

 

[Moodyzblu]

Hi everyone! We had Jacks send off arty this afternoon at Noodles and company. It was amazing! He was so surprised! His wish grantors gave all 3 kids gifts and even hubby and me....lots of snacks for the plane. They made jack a Pooh blanket to take with us. He hasn't let go of it yet!
Thank you everyone for the racers for him feeling better. He is doing better. More labs and tests Tuesday, but e is doing much better.
My daughter came down with strep Friday, so praying we all don't get sick!
We leave in a week and 36 hours......not that I am counting! Lol!
Welcome to all the new people.
I am so excited, it is really feeling real now.

Last year at this time we were at GKTW and the memories are still so fresh .. you guys are going to have such an amazing time !!

 

[Lilfoot93]

Hi everyone! We had Jacks send off arty this afternoon at Noodles and company. It was amazing! He was so surprised! His wish grantors gave all 3 kids gifts and even hubby and me....lots of snacks for the plane. They made jack a Pooh blanket to take with us. He hasn't let go of it yet!
Thank you everyone for the racers for him feeling better. He is doing better. More labs and tests Tuesday, but e is doing much better.
My daughter came down with strep Friday, so praying we all don't get sick!
We leave in a week and 36 hours......not that I am counting! Lol!
Welcome to all the new people.
I am so excited, it is really feeling real now.

Sounds like a fun party!! Praying your daughter feels better for the trip! I hope you guys have a magical time and I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back!!

Jackie

 

[Mom2M07]

Our MAW chapter has been very guarded with any details about our trip. I emailed them today, since we still don't have our flight information, and was told that we are flying on jetblue, but that they don't release the flight times this far in advance. Um ... we leave in less than 3 weeks! They said that flight times can always change, but i'd rather know and then adjust if something changes. Has anyone else had an experience with their MAW chapter not giving them flight times until the last moment?

 

[angel's momma]

Julie - As many complications that we had with our coordinator, she booked the flight as soon as we had dates, and gave us the flight info right away. I agree with you that I'd rather know, and then adapt if a change occurs. Any chance that your airport is small enough that there aren't many flights departing & you could get a pretty good idea of your flight times? Sorry they wouldn't tell you - did they say when they would let you know? Did you tell them what you posted here - that you understand it could change but would still like to know?

 

[Mom2M07]

Julie - As many complications that we had with our coordinator, she booked the flight as soon as we had dates, and gave us the flight info right away. I agree with you that I'd rather know, and then adapt if a change occurs. Any chance that your airport is small enough that there aren't many flights departing & you could get a pretty good idea of your flight times? Sorry they wouldn't tell you - did they say when they would let you know? Did you tell them what you posted here - that you understand it could change but would still like to know?

Our airport is small, but not super small. I looked on the jetblue site and tried to figure out what the times could be. It looks like we could depart around 12:30 (arriving in Orlando around 3:30) or 6:30pm (arriving in Orlando around 9:30pm). I'm hoping that they won't have us arriving at 9:30 at night, wasting our whole first day. On the way back, we could leave Orlando at 9:00am (arriving back home at 12) or 7:30pm (arriving back home at 10:30pm). Again, I'd hate to have to leave GKTW at 6am on our last day in order to make our flight. Whatever it is, we'll make the best of it. I know they want to meet with us to have a "goodbye party" so I'm hoping we'll know in a week or two. Our Wish Granter says that she'll forward us the flight info as soon as she has it. It's MAW that won't release it to her.

 

[angel's momma]

Julie - I hope you get the flight times that will give you the most time at GKTW. I just remembered that our coordinator called me & asked me if the flight times would work for us before she booked them, and had me write it all down. When we got official confirmation in the mail 2 days later - it was a different flight. Yay for the upcoming "goodbye party".

 

[Kirlinale]

Hi everyone, having a hard time finding Disney clothes for my son Jack, the wish child. . I am a bargin shopper and found lots of stuff for my other two kids, especially my daughter. Been to every Goodwill in the at win Cities, well maybe not every but a lot...mitiple times. He just turned eight but is 140 pounds due to the medicatio he has to take for his Cerebal palsy and he can't excercise normal either. Although he loves swimming. Anyhow I checked Walmart, Target and Kmart in the men's section ....so many popular t shirts out with characters, but no Disney or Mickey for men. I did order adorable iron ons from etsy so we will all have matching shirts for one day. But, he is already has so many other things to over come I feel bad. I did look at Disney and found some but or like $30 or $40 bucks. Anyone have any other suggestions of where to look? I have spent hours googling but can't find anything. A few in men's XL but that would be too big. He is only four feet maybe 6 inches? Anyhow any suggestions would be awesome! Thanks so much!
It is beyond amazing to see his pure excitement about going!
Since we are home sick with strep right now we have spent lots of time reading Disney books and watching movies! Yea!
Kenziema glad things are back on trak! Yea!
Has anyone felt nervous before you go because things are always so chaotic? I am so grateful and happy, but jack's health has been so up and down his like I just can't believe this blessing! So excited. And praying we all get, and stay healthy. Sorry such a long post!
Victoria

I have a suggestion since I am in the same boat.. If you can find things that fit him - like a Red T-Shirt - got to michaels or Jo-Ann Fabrics and get some disney iron on patches and make your own. I am also a bargin shopper and you can find really good condition plain shirts - Try a Red T-Shirt from Good Will and iron on a Mickey Mouse... You can also get socks (we just found some Disney socks in Walmart).. I have a 90 pound very short 11 year old due to meds for her epilepsy - but also due to issues from her brain tumor... You could really make some neat shirts with an Iron and some puffy paint -

Wal-Mart tends to carry disney themed items in the adult mens section , but, mostly PJ's - Lastly - on Disneystore online you can usually find mens larger sizes on clearance .. One last idea would be Etsy -or go to a embroidery store and have them bling some plain shirts, PJ's etc .. I have seem many places offereing disney items and thinking of doing this for my DD before we go - Embroid Me (a chain that we have here) charges 12.00 to set up - and a few dollars per item to embriod - I just did some towels for gifts and it was really really reasonable..

I hope that helps!
Nicole
(we are going on our wish trip on the Dream in June.. I've not had a lot of time to write or update my signature etc.. but will soon

 

[Kenziema]

Yay we got our reservations.